Category: New Product Releases

FUJINON has released its new CF-ZA-1S lens series supporting high resolution 1.1″ format images sensors down to 2.5um pixel pitches. This new series has some unique differences making it our go-to lens for this format size.

In this blog, we cover the unique differences, which are at a price point equal to or lower than competing brands, making it the best in its class.

The FUJINON CF-ZA-1Sseries with support of 2.5um pixels can be used essentially with any image sensor up to 1.1″ formats needing resolution for small pixels. Focal lengths from 8mm to 50mm are available.

Main Features of the FUJINON CF-ZA-1S machine vision lens series

High resolution and support of 2.5um pixels from center to edgeFUJINON’s “4D High Resolution” keeps uniform resolution from the image center to the peripherals regardless of lens working distance and f-stop. This is extremely beneficial in applications in which high contrast is needed from center to edge. (i.e Measurement of a part spanning the field of view)Relative illumination reaches 90% +
In general, the illumination of the peripheral areas of the image is determined by the “relative illumination” and the chief ray angle (CFA). FUJINON has designed the lens series to constrain the CRA allowing a good balance to the peripherals of the image as seen below. For machine vision applications needing even illumination, this becomes very important for repeatability.

Vibration and Impact resistantFUJINON has done a great job within their new lens series to incorporate anti-vibration and resistance to high impacts for no extra cost! In applications such as robotic applications, autonomous vehicles and airborne applications to name a few will benefit from this feature.

This video highlights these features and more. It nicely details how the design constraints the CFA for even illumination and is a nice tutorial.

Fujinon introduced their first 5MP series, the 5MP SA-1s over a decade ago. Back then they were the first really high quality lenses for under $500.

Now, they have introduced their next generation 5MP series, the new XA-5M , and they have made them smaller, better, and less expensive! Now you can get a 5MP rated lens for very close to what 2 or 3MP lens cost with the new HF-XA-5M series lenses! 1stVision has preferred pricing and stock! Contact us for a quote

The Fujinon XA-5M are designed to work at 3.45um resolution (and very good at 2.5um), so they are a great choice for the 3.45um pixels found in the Sony Pregius IMX line of sensors. See image below showing a heat map of the resolution.(Darker red is higher resolution, 2.7um, orange is 3.3, yellow is 4um, light blue is 5um, and dark blue is 6um)

Further, the new CMOS sensors have more of a ‘stacked’ architecture, meaning each pixel is tall. Without having a lens that has a small chief ray angle, which keeps the light rays as close to perpendicular as possible to the sensor, each pixel possibly shades its neighbor. The new Fujinon lenses are designed to solve that problem for these sensors. So when comparing this line to their competitors, there is less shading at the edges and more even illumination!

The results can be seen when comparing the center to edges in an application. In the example below, the text in the center and edge on the FUJI “4D High Resolution” lenses is crisp vs the competition on the right.

Finally, Fujinon has dramatically reduced the size of the lens, all the lenses are 29.5mm in diameter except the 6mm, which is 39.5mm. Now you can get a 5MP rated lens for very close to what 2 or 3MP lens cost with the new HF-XA-5M series lenses! 1stVision has preferred pricing and in stock! Contact us for a quote

Watch this video for more details on how the HF-XA-5M lenses compare to the competition

CoaXPress is an established industry standard allowing high speed communications over coaxial cable. The current version supports bit rates up to 6.25 Gbits/sec over a single coaxial cable. When used in parallel, two or more coaxial cables can provide incremental speed gains. The naming convention associated with CoaXPress signify the bit rate as seen in the chart below. In cases that you see CXP-6 has a bit rate of 6.25 Gb/s. The 4 x means the number of lanes. Multiply the 2 and you get your total bit rate.

The new Allied Vision Bonito Pro camerasutilize 4 DIN 1.0/2.3 connectors on a CXP-6 interface (4 lanes) x 6.25Gbits/Sec. This allows for resolutions of up to 26 megapixels to reach 70 frames per second (fps). The first two Bonito PRO models (Bonito PRO X-2620 and X-1250) support high resolution with 26.6MP and 12.5MP at 80 and 142 fps respectively.

Machine Vision applications required some essentials components and functions. These components will always have a machine vision camera, and typically need lighting with some input and output (I/O) functions to synchronize events in addition to lenses and other accessories.

Industrial computers are also needed to run PC based machine vision software and provide communications between the camera and software. These computers need to be suited for various environments which may be dusty, as in a casting foundry, to full clean rooms in electronics manufacturing. Ideally the computers should help in the overall integration of machine vision applications.

Introducing Neousys who is a leader in machine vision computing, designed their computer from the ground up for machine vision. This blog post addresses the specific features that are offered and what problems it solves.

What’s really offered in a “Machine Vision” computer? Key features are outlined as follows

Fan-less computer designs: In cases where dust is prevalent, normal computers have fans which brings in dust, clogging fans and creating the system to heat up. Neousys has a fan-less design with efficient heat dissipation allowing for high temperatures from -25 to 70 Deg. C.

Unlike other industrial computer suppliers, Neousys platforms begin with a single board computer laying out all heat generating components evenly, optimizing the thermal design. In turn, at 100% CPU loading, AND at the ends of the specified temperature ranges, there is no performance degradation.

Designed for thermal management, all of the hot components are interfaced directly with the heat sink with carefully selected thermal interface material.

Modular Mezzio cassette design: Application requirements differ from needing multiple communication ports to synchronization of events via inputs and outputs. Neousys provides easy to configure, exchangeable modules to unlock the limits and provide feature expansion. MezIO modules can be added for Power over Ethernet (up to 8+ ports ), USB ports, COM ports (RS232/422/485), Digital IO including encoder inputs or even customized features. All this done with a focus on thermal management.

Integrated Controls: To ensure high quality images, a machine vision system requires accurate interaction between lighting, camera, actuator and sensor devices. Neousys integrates LED lighting controller, camera trigger, encoder input, PWM output and digital I/O, to connect and control all the vision devices. All the vision-specific I/O are managed by Neousys’ patented MCU-based architecture and DTIO/NuMCU firmware to guarantee microsecond-scale real-time I/O control.

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